Introduction Summary and Analysis

The author, Mark Sisson, is a former professional athlete who found himself getting repeatedly injured and sick, and wanted to find a better way to address his health needs. After doing 30 years of research, he settled on the idea of following the guide of human ancestry, eating and moving like them, which led him to write his first book, The Primal Blueprint.

Summary. He begins by writing that this is not a book about becoming "more gracious," but about getting one's hands dirty in life. People, many of whom are very successful, still have the sense that they are missing something. They might try to fix this problem with all kinds of activities or pills or diets. However, while these things might help somewhat, they aren't addressing the core problem. Even when people do all these things—schedule themselves into...